Inhaltsangabe

Between getting into a tangle with a corrupt local judge and discovering a disturbing black-market business, Dr. Siri and his friend Inspector Phosy have their hands full in the 13th installment of Colin Cotterill's quirky, critically acclaimed series.

Dr. Siri Paiboun, the ex-national coroner of Laos, may have more experience dissecting bodies than making art, but when he manages to smuggle a fancy movie camera into the country he devises a plan to shoot a Lao adaptation of War and Peace with his friend Civilai. The only problem? The Ministry of Culture must approve the script before they can get rolling. That and they can't figure out how to turn on the camera.

Meanwhile, the skeleton of a woman has appeared under the Anusawari Arch in the middle of the night. Siri puts his directorial debut on hold and assists his friend, the newly promoted Senior Police Inspector Phosy Vongvichai, with the ensuing investigation. Though the death of the unknown woman seems to be recent, the flesh on her corpse has been picked off in places as if something - or someone - has been gnawing on the bones. The plot Phosy soon uncovers involves much more than single set of skeletal remains.

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The Coroners Lunch

Autor:
Colin Cotterill

Sprecher:
Gareth Armstrong

Spieldauer: 7 Std. und 57 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
26

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
18

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
19

Laos, 1972. The Communist Pathet Lao has taken over. Most of the educated class has fled, but 72-year-old Dr Siri Paiboun, a Paris-trained doctor, remains and is appointed state coroner. When three bodies are recovered from a reservoir, Dr.Siri establishes the cause of death was not drowning - they seem to have been electrocuted. And then there is the inexplicable death of a Party bigwig's wife at a banquet. Dr.Siri doesn't think her death was from natural causes.

4 out of 5 stars

Real Lao feeling

Von
Manfred
Am hilfreichsten
22.05.2015

Rivers of London

Rivers of London, Book 1

Autor:
Ben Aaronovitch

Sprecher:
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 37 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
935

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
843

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
836

My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May.

Atmosphärischer (fast)Krimi

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Autor:
Stuart Turton

Sprecher:
Jot Davies

Spieldauer: 16 Std. und 41 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
122

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
116

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
115

'Somebody's going to be murdered at the ball tonight. It won't appear to be a murder, and so the murderer won't be caught. Rectify that injustice and I'll show you the way out.' It is meant to be a celebration, but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed. But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden - one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party - can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself over and over again.

5 out of 5 stars

Great Audiobook!

Von
Stephan G.
Am hilfreichsten
17.04.2018

The Crossing Places

Autor:
Elly Griffiths

Sprecher:
Jane McDowell

Spieldauer: 8 Std. und 26 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
57

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
51

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
50

When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, Ruth Galloway lectures at the University of North Norfolk. She lives happily alone in a remote place called Saltmarsh overlooking the North Sea and, for company; she has her cats Flint and Sparky, and Radio 4. When a child's bones are found in the marshes near an ancient site that Ruth worked on ten years earlier, Ruth is asked to date them.

4 out of 5 stars

Gelungener Auftakt für eine Krimi Serie

Von
BaS
Am hilfreichsten
12.05.2017

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

A Flavia de Luce Mystery

Autor:
Alan Bradley

Sprecher:
Jayne Entwistle

Spieldauer: 9 Std. und 53 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
88

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
52

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
49

It is the summer of 1950 and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw.

5 out of 5 stars

Unbedingt durchhalten!

Von
J. Spars
Am hilfreichsten
14.02.2011

The Coroners Lunch

Autor:
Colin Cotterill

Sprecher:
Gareth Armstrong

Spieldauer: 7 Std. und 57 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
26

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
18

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
19

Laos, 1972. The Communist Pathet Lao has taken over. Most of the educated class has fled, but 72-year-old Dr Siri Paiboun, a Paris-trained doctor, remains and is appointed state coroner. When three bodies are recovered from a reservoir, Dr.Siri establishes the cause of death was not drowning - they seem to have been electrocuted. And then there is the inexplicable death of a Party bigwig's wife at a banquet. Dr.Siri doesn't think her death was from natural causes.

4 out of 5 stars

Real Lao feeling

Von
Manfred
Am hilfreichsten
22.05.2015

Rivers of London

Rivers of London, Book 1

Autor:
Ben Aaronovitch

Sprecher:
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 37 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
935

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
843

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
836

My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May.

Atmosphärischer (fast)Krimi

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Autor:
Stuart Turton

Sprecher:
Jot Davies

Spieldauer: 16 Std. und 41 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
122

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
116

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
115

'Somebody's going to be murdered at the ball tonight. It won't appear to be a murder, and so the murderer won't be caught. Rectify that injustice and I'll show you the way out.' It is meant to be a celebration, but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed. But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden - one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party - can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself over and over again.

5 out of 5 stars

Great Audiobook!

Von
Stephan G.
Am hilfreichsten
17.04.2018

The Crossing Places

Autor:
Elly Griffiths

Sprecher:
Jane McDowell

Spieldauer: 8 Std. und 26 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
57

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
51

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
50

When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, Ruth Galloway lectures at the University of North Norfolk. She lives happily alone in a remote place called Saltmarsh overlooking the North Sea and, for company; she has her cats Flint and Sparky, and Radio 4. When a child's bones are found in the marshes near an ancient site that Ruth worked on ten years earlier, Ruth is asked to date them.

4 out of 5 stars

Gelungener Auftakt für eine Krimi Serie

Von
BaS
Am hilfreichsten
12.05.2017

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

A Flavia de Luce Mystery

Autor:
Alan Bradley

Sprecher:
Jayne Entwistle

Spieldauer: 9 Std. und 53 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
88

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
52

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
49

It is the summer of 1950 and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw.

5 out of 5 stars

Unbedingt durchhalten!

Von
J. Spars
Am hilfreichsten
14.02.2011

Relic

Pendergast, Book 1

Autor:
Douglas Preston,
Lincoln Child

Sprecher:
David Colacci

Spieldauer: 13 Std. und 1 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
72

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
44

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
44

Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human. But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who - or what - is doing the killing.

Dr. Siri hat das Zeug zum Klassiker!

The Witch Elm

A Novel

Autor:
Tana French

Sprecher:
Paul Nugent

Spieldauer: 22 Std. und 7 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
53

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
52

Geschichte

3.5 out of 5 stars
52

Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life - he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family's ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden - and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed.

4 out of 5 stars

My least favorite book of this author so far

Von
An
Am hilfreichsten
10.12.2018

The Cuckoo's Calling

Cormoran Strike, Book 1

Autor:
Robert Galbraith

Sprecher:
Robert Glenister

Spieldauer: 15 Std. und 53 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
593

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
547

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
547

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case.Strike is a war veteran - wounded both physically and psychologically - and his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model's complex world, the darker things get - and the closer he gets to terrible danger...

5 out of 5 stars

Eines der besten Hörbücher, die ich je gehört habe

Von
Birte
Am hilfreichsten
02.03.2014

In a House of Lies

Autor:
Ian Rankin

Sprecher:
James Macpherson

Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 39 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
28

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
27

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
27

A missing private investigator is found locked in a car hidden deep in the woods. Worse still - both for his family and the police - the body was in an area that had already been searched 10 years ago. Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is part of a new inquiry, combing through the mistakes of the original case. There were always suspicions over how the investigation was handled, and now - after a decade without answers - it's time for the truth.

Ein Buch

Skulduggery Pleasant

Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 1

Autor:
Derek Landy

Sprecher:
Rupert Degas

Spieldauer: 7 Std. und 9 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
134

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
102

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
102

Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that, while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn't fiction. Pursued by evil forces intent on recovering a mysterious key, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source, the wisecracking skeleton of a dead wizard.

5 out of 5 stars

Riesenspass mit Landy und Degas

Von
alfred1974
Am hilfreichsten
16.05.2011

The Temptation of Forgiveness

Commissario Brunetti, Book 27

Autor:
Donna Leon

Sprecher:
David Sibley

Spieldauer: 8 Std. und 31 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
14

Sprecher

4 out of 5 stars
13

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
13

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Temptation of Forgiveness by Donna Leon, read by David Sibley. When important information is leaked from inside the Venetian Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is entrusted with the task of uncovering which of his colleagues is responsible. But before Brunetti can begin his investigation, he is surprised by the appearance in his office of a friend of his wife's, who is fearful that her son is using drugs. A few weeks later, Tullio Gasparini, the woman's husband, is found unconscious with a serious head injury at the foot of a bridge, and Brunetti is drawn to pursue a possible connection to the boy’s behaviour. But the truth is not straightforward.

Broken Ground

Karen Pirie, Book 5

Autor:
Val McDermid

Sprecher:
Cathleen McCarron

Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 56 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
15

Sprecher

4 out of 5 stars
15

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
15

When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems. It's not long before an overheard conversation draws Karen into the heart of a different case, however - a shocking crime she thought she'd already prevented. As she inches closer to the twisted truths at the centre of these murders, it becomes clear that she's dealing with a version of justice terrifyingly different to her own....

Geschichte

Good Story with a satisfying payoff

The Laos detectives are faced with the biggest danger yet: absolutely legal cruelty. how will they react to a half eaten skeleton? a blackmailed confidant and an economy based on cruelty and suffering?

The story has it's bleak moments but it's such a good payoff in the end the bleakness is forgotten.